![]() ![]() We will re-open group packing sessions and other volunteer opportunities when we can do so safely. New volunteers help from home by mailing information and letters of support to people in prison Sent 2,700 informational mailings about COVID-19 and prisoners’ rightsĮxperienced volunteers take on solo shifts fulfilling book requests from people in prisonĭonated funds support a contract worker who fulfills requests when volunteers are not availableīTB supporters donate books and fund our work Sent free books to 2,200 people in PA state prisons During the first year of the pandemic, we… ARe you trying to help your loved one in prison get their stimulus Checks?Īnthony M from the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration put together some helpful information about how to do this, which you can access here. COVID-19 has limited our capacity, but we ARE sending books to people incarcerated in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. They have helped us distribute literally tens of thousands of books all over New Jersey. Perhaps you're lucky enough to have better contacts than I with respect to recycling your text books or were blessed with more time to find places that would take them.People in prison are facing especially difficult conditions during the pandemic, and many have lost access to prison libraries. The Bridge of Books Foundation has donated books to all eleven Youth Corps sites including Asbury Park, Camden, Trenton, Vineland, Jersey City and Edison. Sadly some books, due to their high acid content "burn up" on their own too and aren't particularly suited for reading or re-use without crumbling into pieces. Though a good number of my books were bought new, a huge part of my collection was purchased used so I can appreciate recycling all books for reuse and it truly pains me to see them go to waste. On a personal level, I always have and I think always will, prefer books, though computers are fabulous tools (for good or bad). This is being done even in places with little or uneven access to power.įor teaching a class it also helps to have access to the same information too, rather than everyone in the class having a number of mismatched texts. There have been experiments where wall-mounted computers were tried to see how well children would take to them and it turned out that their curious and intuitive nature led them to surprise the researchers with their abilities. I've looked for places that collected textbooks for reuse before without much luck, though perhaps there are more places available now that I'm not aware of.įrom what I've read though, much of the outreach has been concentrated on bringing old computers back to life, as well as less expensive tablets and chromebook-type computers that are much simpler. ![]() Electricity is easily generated via either waterpower (still) or by solar panel and even my "Home Power" magazines from the early 2000's showed installations in Tibet and other remote areas of the world. Some of my textbooks I've been able to give away for reuse, but from what I've seen, shared tablets and chromebooks seem to be taking their places in some parts of the world. I actually collected old electronic, math and mechanical engineering texts (among others). I agree with you that STEM books from the past are often much better written and I was just commenting on the difficulty in recycling them and other textbooks to people who can use them. You'd think that they'd want to collect them for third world countries, but the freight involved as well as the weight may make it easier to use chromebooks with digital texts on them:-( You'd be in luck if it's a text that's still in use for classes and a student wants to save by getting a recycled one, but other than that, it's almost best to tear the pages out, toss the binding in the trash and recycle the paper pages. Just about everyone refuses to take textbooks. Unfortunately unless you post in the County College of Morris facebook page or locally, I doubt if you'll be able to find a taker. Much has been donated, but some was able to be sold to the O.B.S. I'm downsizing over 45 linear feet of bookcases into maybe 20 and it's been yeoman's work to pull titles I think I can possibly "do without". is the "Old Book Shop" in Morristown Your friend may be able to sell some if they're interested in the titles and they're in good condition. ![]() Another thing to try with history books or old tech type books, etc. ![]()
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